id Software founder John Carmack resigns — John Carmack, co-founder and technical director at id Software, has left the company to focus his full-time attention on his role as chief technical officer at Oculus VR, according to a statement from Bethesda Softworks.

Sir Tim Berners-Lee Blasts “Insidious, Chilling Effects” Of Online Surveillance, Says We Should Be Protecting Whistleblowers Like Snowden — The rising tides of online surveillance, and the lack of safeguards from governments to protect individuals against them, are having a disastrous effect …

More Moolah for MOOCs: Coursera Raises Another $20M — After being founded just last year, online education startup Coursera turned heads this summer when it raised a $43 million Series B round. — Coursera's current business model is selling verified certificates that students have completed its classes.

Introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio — Just when you thought it couldn't be crazier in Redmond, today they are introducing node.js Tools for Visual Studio! — NTVS runs inside VS2012 or VS2013. Some node.js enthusiasts had forked PTVS and begun some spikes of node tools for VS …

Here's how Bitcoin charmed Washington — The pair of Bitcoin hearings held this week by Senate committees could have been a disaster for the Bitcoin community. After all, Bitcoin first came to mainstream attention in 2011 when Gawker reported on Silk Road, an anonymous online marketplace …